Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications

The Environment and Communications Committees cover the following portfolios: Communications and the Arts; and Environment and Energy.

Prior to September 2010, this committee was called the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts and prior to February 2008, it was called the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

Environment and Communications References Committee

An inquiry into Australia's Faunal extinction crisis including the wider ecological impact of faunal extinction, the adequacy of Commonwealth environment laws, the adequacy of existing monitoring practices, assessment process and compliance mechanisms for enforcing Commonwealth environmental law, and a range of other matters.